Since I asked the question on Daily Mile, “Why would someone heading to the gym take the elevator from the 2nd floor?” I have been thinking a lot about why people do the things that they do. This has moved on mainly to people’s driving skills (or lack thereof!)
For instance, Melissa commented, “I always wonder people why circle the parking lot at the gym to find the closest spot to the door … you can’t WALK from the back of the parking lot to go WALK on the treadmill??” Why would they do that? I have found myself pulling into a parking lot of a grocery store and notice someone driving around trying to get the closest spot and my extra 30 feet of walking takes me far less time than it does to find the closest spot.
Speaking of grocery stores, Crystal suggested that I write about this topic. She said, “People who park in front of the store at the door in the fire lane.” What makes them think that they have the right to park there? Are they any better than anyone else? Come on people; is it really that hard to walk 30 feet from a real parking space? If you can’t walk 30 feet, you shouldn’t be shopping for food anyway, you should be at the gym!
One thing that really burns me up is people who bypass a long line of cars waiting to turn left at a stop sign only to turn right and pull a u-turn and go left anyway. What makes them think they can cut in line?
What burns you guys up? And does anyone have any answers for this behavior?
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I hate how people don’t treat sidewalks as places to WALK. I was about 11 miles into my 15-mile run on Saturday and I ran right past Pike’s Soda Shop. There were 3 people walking from their car to the soda shop, and two of the people stepped right in front of where I was coming on the sidewalk and STOPPED, turned around, and waited for the third person. I literally almost plowed into the girl closest to me, and there is a part of me that wishes I had – just to teach her a lesson! I was very careful to stay on the right side of the sidewalk – she had plenty of room to stand on the other side – or she could have walked 3 more steps and waited for her friend on Pike’s porch – out of the way of pedestrians!
I also hate when cars pull into their driveway but not far enough so that they are off the sidewalk, and then you have to run around the bumper of their car when you’re going by. That really burns me up. I blogged about that … http://melissaoh.com/2009/09/on-sidewalk-etiquette/ … and every time I see a car doing that I want to stick a printout of my blog on their window. But I’m chicken.
Melissa that is a good one. You should cut your name off and stick it on there!!! I’m the same way. I wanted so bad to say something to that lazy A, but I’m scared too. They probably wouldn’t be too lazy to shoot me! Another peeve of mine is when people park in the handicap space with their sticker, and then get out and are perfectly fine, practically sprinting into the store. Now, I know that everyone can’t be judge by outward appearance, and some people may appear to be healthy, but in actuality would not be able to make a long trek. However, I would venture to say that 9 out of 10 people are using a family member’s tag, or one that they got from the dr when they broke their little toe that healed months ago
. GGRRRR (Melissa is that one of the MEH’s type words that annoys you? hahaha. I apologize profusely if it is. That is me growling in anger!)
Ha, grrr does not bother me! The main reason stuff like that bothers me is if there is a proper way to say it. Now if you had written “growl” that would have looked funny, so I say you did it correctly! It’s words like “kitteh” when “kitty” is spelled correctly, shorter, and not dumb.